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And at least four Republican Senators — Rob Portman, Shelley Moore Capito, Cory Gardner, and Lisa Murkowski — said Monday they wouldn't vote for a bill which significantly undercuts Medicaid (a criteria that this draft legislation appears to fit).

A draft bill unveiled last week by Republicans in the House of Representatives, if enacted, would be the biggest restructuring of the tax system since the 1980s and the first major legislative victory of the Trump presidency.

When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell selected the group of 13 lawmakers who would work on drafting a health care bill to replace the Affordable Care Act in May, none of the five female Republican Senators were included.

The fate of the Senate GOP health bill could lie with three female Republican lawmakers who, like many of their colleagues, were left out of the group responsible for drafting it.

In retrospect, and in light of the conflicting reports about what may be contained in the final draft of the bill, this has proved prophetic because moments ago, Axios reported that week's 2nd biggest events — after Trump's announcement of Jay Powell as the next Fed chair — the release of the Republican tax bill is being postponed by at least one day, from Wednesday to Thursday.

The Aldrich Bill, an early Republican draft of the Federal Reserve Act, called for a National Reserve Association to be dominated by bankers.

The American president has signed the bill drafted by Democratic and Republican leaders, which allows the United States to avoid «fiscal cliff».

With just a few days before an anticipated vote, Senate Republicans released a revised version of their Obamacare repeal legislation that adds a continuous coverage requirement to the draft bill they unveiled last week.

Those two bills include the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 (BCRA), the healthcare bill drafted by Senate Republicans which was publicly released last week but has not yet been voted on, and the American Health Care Act of 2017 (AHCA), approved in the House on May 4th.

Signed into law by Bill Clinton (probably his greatest act) and drafted by Newt Gingrich's Republican Congress, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (1996) has had a transformational effect on American welfare.

State Sen. Mike Ranzenhofer, a Republican from Erie County, introduced a bill seeking to change the state's definition of gambling to incorporate language from the federal government, carving out draft fantasy sports companies.

The Associated Press reported that at least 10 Republican senators have expressed opposition to the initial bill, drafted by McConnell.

Now it's on the republicans for not coming together and, worse, for drafting a bill that was even less popular then Obamacare.

The Republicans initially cited «Obamacare» in the wake of the same - sex marriage bill passage as the reason why they wouldn't follow the Assembly's lead last summer and pass the health care exhange bill, even though one of their veteran members, Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon, had been involved in drafting the measure and supported it.

The Cuomo administration's draft bill comes weeks after the Republican - led Senate released a report detailing dozens of recommendations, which included 27 legislative proposals.

Western New York has missed out on being the setting for a major motion picture, but Republican state Senator Patrick Gallivan hopes the loss of the movie «Draft Day,» starring Kevin Costner, will help push along a bill that would offer tax credits for films to be shot in New York state.

News regarding the draft's location came after Rep. Chris Collins, R - Erie County, told the Washington Examiner that a draft of the replacement bill would be available to House Republicans on Thursday morning in the basement of an office building adjacent the Capitol, but that «no one is getting a copy.»

Senator Jack Martins, a Republican who until last year was mayor of the Nassau County megavillage of Mineola (which is mostly located in the Town of North Hempstead, but also a little bit in the Town of Hempstead), is sponsoring a bill requiring two votes: one to draft the plan, another to implement it.

Washington (CNN)- Two weeks ago, the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill on a 68 - 32 vote, with 14 Republicans joining the Democratic majority to send the measure drafted by a bipartisan «Gang of Eight» to the GOP - controlled House.

The bill is being drafted by Republican Assembly members including Jim Tedisco of the Capital Region, who says police are most vulnerable when sitting in thier vehicles.

CNN: Five reasons immigration reform isn't close to the finish line Two weeks ago, the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill on a 68 - 32 vote, with 14 Republicans joining the Democratic majority to send the measure drafted by a bipartisan «Gang of Eight» to the GOP - controlled House.

Most recently, Republicans tried to insert into the draft of a must - pass spending bill a provision that would relax coordination rules between candidates and political parties.

«House and Senate Republicans are now drafting specific tax proposals that are slated to then get signed as a bill into law by President Trump by the end of this year.

Also this week, the House Republicans introduced their own draft bill that would replace the COMPETES Act, Mervis wrote in another ScienceInsider.

House Republicans have not said when they expect to unveil a detailed draft of the EINSTEIN bill.

Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D - TX), the committee's ranking member, agreed to talk with ScienceInsider about both her draft bill and her frustrations in finding common ground with her Republican colleagues.

the article describes how Representative Zoe Lofgren (D - CA), who last June introduced HR 2161, «has under lock and key the draft of a broad compromise immigration bill agreed to in secret by Republican and Democratic negotiators in the last Congress.»

House Republicans have not formally introduced a bill, but the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth, and Families released its third draft plan on Feb. 27.

Gov. Jim Edgar of Illinois last week signed a Republican - drafted bill overhauling the Chicago school system that hands over the reins of the 410,000 - student district to Mayor Richard M. Daley.

He started his chairmanship by dropping a draft bill that, to the chagrin of Democrats, was stacked with Republican priorities.

Alexander unveiled a Republican draft of what he'd like to see in the law and was holding meetings with moderate Democrats, including former governors who might throw their support behind a bill that gives power over education back to the states, to discuss NCLB.

The Republican Senate and House draft bills place a different weight on the importance of testing, which is a crucial element of NCLB.

Education Week recently reported that some Republican Senate aides are doing more than dreaming — they're drafting a bill that would eliminate the federal mandate on standardized testing.

As Congressional Republicans draft a tax bill that could open a portion of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife to drilling, the Trump administration is moving to aggressively expand fossil fuel production elsewhere in the state.

The bill has some «definite votes» from Republican senators, has majority public support, and 9 of the most important fence - sitting Dems have drafted a letter stating exactly what would bring them on board.

The bill, drafted by Representative John Rutherford, a Republican and former sheriff from Jacksonville, Fla., is one of a flurry of bipartisan measures introduced in the House and the Senate devoted to school safety — without curbs on guns.

This disclosure bill was drafted by Democrats Amy Klobuchar and Mark Warner; soon after Republican Sen. John McCain signed onto it.

Last week, a leaked draft of House Republicans» bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act included a provision to «defund» Planned Parenthood.

This bill would overturn Arizona's decade - old contraceptive equity law, drafted by Republican former state Representative Linda Binder and signed by Republican and Catholic former Governor Jan Hull.

We're off to a promising start: Republicans and Democrats in the Senate were able to unanimously pass a draft of a compromise ESEA bill.